Boris Johnson highlights Brampton Manor Academy sending more students to Oxbridge than Eton as an example of "levelling up".
Brampton Manor is a super selective sixth form. It is very far from being a comprehensive.
Will Hazell
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Will Hazell
@whazell
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- Today I spoke to a young man, Saeed. He's an unaccompanied refugee in care. Came to UK in 2016. Got 8s and 7s at GCSE. Offer to study at Manchester and was predicted ABB. Downgraded to BCE. Missed his offer. Can't get a place elsewere. "Stuck". inews.co.uk/news/education… @theipaper
- Breaking: 315k pupils off in England because of Covid last week- higher than end of last year. Bear in mind that attendance usually strongest at start of term before slumping as the term progresses…
- An @theipaper exclusive today: A major UK exam board is drawing up plans for a new GCSE in Natural History, to reconnect teenagers with nature by teaching them about British plants and animals inews.co.uk/news/education…
- Will update my spreadsheet - so that’s at least *108* sitting MPs who have been given knighthoods/damehoods since 2010. A reminder that between 1997 and 2010, Labour gave such honours to… *11* sitting MPs… x.com/whazell/status…The government has quietly slipped out new honours just before the Easter break. An eye-catcher in there: Tory donor Mohamed Mansour, who gave a whopping £5m to the party last year, is handed a knighthood.
- Ministers have been urged to extend free school meals to all holidays to cover a predicted rise in hunger in the October half-term and at Christmas inews.co.uk/news/education… @theipaper
- Exclusive: @BrandonLewis endorses Liz Truss, claiming Rishi Sunak put up “huge resistance” to efforts to override the Northern Ireland Protocol telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… @Telegraph
- BREAKING: 39.1% of teacher A-level predictions in England downgraded by algorithm inews.co.uk/news/education… @theipaper #AlevelResults
- Exclusive: The ban on new grammar schools could be lifted within months, @Telegraph reveals. Sir Graham Brady confirms he is planning an amendment to the Schools Bill to scrap the ban- and he thinks the Government is likely to support it
- If Boris Johnson was asking Conservative donors to fund his childcare after whipping his MPs to vote against free school meals vouchers in the holidays that’s... not a good look.
- Replying to @whazellOfqual have said pupils from lower socioeconomic backgrounds were more likely to have seen a bigger downward adjustment, but said there was “no evidence of systematic bias” in the adjustments.
- EXCLUSIVE: the Archbishop of Southwark John Wilson backed a decision to cancel a visit by a gay author to a Catholic state school and to sack governors who wanted it to go ahead, @theipaper can reveal inews.co.uk/uncategorized/…
- Nigel Farage says that a Reform government could negotiate the ECHR out of the Good Friday Agreement, though he says it will take time. Imagine Republic of Ireland/nationalists will have something to say about that...
